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Moving West
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Native Americans
Technology
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An act that gave 160 Acres of land given to citizens 21 years or older

What is the Homestead Act

100

What is Manifest Destiny?

The belief that Americans had the God given right to move west and spread over the entire continent.

100

What are the two categories/factors we discussed that motivate people to move?

Push and pull factors

100
Federal land set aside for Native Americans
What are Reservations
100
What was found in California?
Gold
200

Settlers who claimed land too soon prior to April 22, 1889

What are Sooners

200
What was the main benefit of moving west?
Land Ownership
200

What is one major conflict/battle between settlers and Native Americans?

The Battle of Little Big Horn, the Red River Wars, the Apache and Navajo Wars, the Sand Creek Massacre, etc.

200
How did the US government change Native American culture?
Forced on to Reservations Forced to Assimilate Army killed them
200

What is a boomtown?

A town that quickly develops due to newfound prosperity (wealth)

300
An Act that gave Government land grants to Railroad Companies
What is the Pacific Railways Act
300
Who owned much of the lands near transportation routes?
Railroads
300
Name one aspect of Settlers lifestyle
Individualism Lived in one place Farmers, Ranchers, Miners Looking for Adventure, get rich
300

What is the purpose of a Ghost Dance?

The dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to fight on their behalf, end American Westward expansion, and bring the buffalo back.

300

How did technology help farmers?

It saved time and effort (efficiency)

400
Cowboys herded cattle from distant ranges to railway centers
What is a Long Drive or Cattle Drive
400
Name a Pull factor to moving west
What are Cheap land Adventure New beginning Lure of success Government Incentives
400

Who were vigilantes?

People who banded together to dispense justice. EX. BATMAN

400

Why did many western Native Americans move from place to place?

They followed the Buffalo

400

What type of transport promoted homesteading?

Railroads

500
African Americans who migrated west to escape racism
What are Exodusters
500
Name a Push Factors for moving west
What are Expensive land in East Overcrowding in East Mistreatment of Minorities
500
An act that gave the Union Pacific & Central Pacific given large land grants to build Transcontinental Railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Acts
500

Name one aspect of Native American lifestyle that was taken by forced assimilation

Community Focused Nomadic (Moves around), Hunters, hair, religion, language, clothes

500
An invention that ended the Ranching/Cowboy lifestyle
What is Barbed Wire